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A 62-year-old driver in Dover, Delaware, was arrested and charged with patronizing prostitution after a video surfaced of him engaging in sex acts with a woman on a school bus, police said. The Dover Police Department reported that, during an unrelated school bus investigation, a school district employee found video footage of Alvin Rohm, the school bus driver, picking up a woman near Governors Avenue and Lockerman Street and driving toward Jerusalem Way. Police stated that after parking near Jerusalem Way, Rohm was seen engaging in sex acts with the woman and exchanging money. Rohm is not employed by a school district and was employed by a contracted bus service, according to police. The video of the incident was turned over to Dover Police, where an investigation led to Rohm being arrested and charged with patronizing a prostitute within 1000 feet of school, resident, church or place and lewdness. Police said that the incident happened on January 6, 2026. Rohm was arrested on January 12 without incident and released on an O.R. bond.

Logan Triangle, an area of North Philadelphia that has been vacant since the 1980s due to environmental contamination, could soon become a place where people’s new homes are manufactured. On Wednesday, Jan. 21, Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker announced a proposal to have modular housing factories take up the 30 acres of empty lots that make up Logan Triangle. “Everything Philadelphia needs to become the hub as a manufacturer of housing in our region is right here,” Parker said. “What you see today here in this Logan community, yes, it is vacant land. But as Mayor of Philadelphia, I want you to know that I see possibilities.” “So, on this day, I have instructed our Department of Planning and Development to issue a Request for Information to guide the development of modular housing factories right here in the City of Philadelphia. It’s formal, it’s official and it’s live,” Parker added. Parker said that the factories would not only bring jobs to Philadelphia but would also allow the city to build new homes at scale as part of the Parker administration’s H.O.M.E. initiative, which is looking to create and preserve 30,000 units of new and existing housing throughout Philadelphia. A formal Request for Information was issued at the event on Wednesday giving potential partners the opportunity to submit proposals to the city. “We are seeking innovative proposals that address site requirements, operations, workforce capacity and financial models to ensure Philadelphia leads in modular housing production,” Jessie Lawrence, the director of the Department of Planning and Development, said. “This is our roadmap forward,” Parker added. “We will use every tool available to redevelop long-vacant land, deliver housing at scale and ensure Philadelphians can afford to stay in our city.”

A former Uvalde police officer was acquitted Wednesday of charges that he failed in his duties to confront the gunman at Robb Elementary during the critical first minutes of one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history. Jurors deliberated for more than seven hours before finding Adrian Gonzales, 52, not guilty in the first trial over the hesitant law enforcement response to the 2022 attack, in which a teenage gunman killed 19 fourth-graders and two teachers. Had he been convicted, he faced up two years in prison on more than two dozen charges of child abandonment and endangerment. Gonzales appeared to fight back tears and hugged his lawyers after the verdict was read in a courtroom in Corpus Christi, hundreds of miles from Uvalde, where his legal team said a fair trial would not have been possible. “Thank you for the jury for considering all the evidence,” Gonzales told reporters. Asked if he wanted to say anything to the families, he declined. Several family members of the victims sat in silence in the courtroom, some crying or wiping away tears. “Faith is fractured, but you never lose faith,” said Jesse Rizo, whose 9-year-old niece Jackie Cazares was killed. He said he was frustrated by the verdict and hopes the state will press ahead with the trial of former Uvalde schools Police Chief Pete Arredondo, the only other officer who has been charged over the police response. “Those children in the cemetery can’t speak for themselves,” Rizo said. Jurors declined to speak to reporters while leaving. Arredondo’s trial has not yet been set. Paul Looney, his attorney, told The Associated Press that he believes the verdict will result in prosecutors dropping the case against his client. “These people have been vilified, and it’s horrible what’s been done to them. These guys didn’t do anything wrong,” Looney said. A rare trial ends in acquittal The nearly three-week trial was an unusual case in the U.S. of an officer facing criminal charges on accusations of failing to stop a crime and protect lives. The proceedings included emotional testimony from teachers who were shot and survived. Prosecutors argued that Gonzales abandoned his training and did nothing to stop or interrupt the teenage gunman before he entered the school. “We’re expected to act differently when talking about a child that can’t defend themselves,” special prosecutor Bill Turner said during closing arguments Wednesday. “If you have a duty to act, you can’t stand by while a child is in imminent danger.” At least 370 law enforcement officers rushed to the school, where 77 minutes passed before a tactical team finally entered the classroom to confront and kill the gunman. Gonzales was one of just two officers indicted, angering some victim’s relatives who said they wanted more to be held accountable. Gonzales was charged with 29 counts of child abandonment and endangerment — each count representing the 19 students who were killed and 10 others who were injured. Jurors talked about ‘gaps’ in case, lawyer says During the trial jurors heard a medical examiner describe the fatal wounds to the children, some of whom were shot more than a dozen times. Several parents told of sending their children to school for an awards ceremony and the panic that ensued as the attack unfolded. Gonzales’ lawyers said he arrived upon a chaotic scene of rifle shots echoing on school grounds and never saw the gunman before the attacker went inside the school. They also insisted that three other officers who arrived seconds later had a better chance to stop the gunman. “He was the lowest man on the totem pole. They thought he was easy pickings,” Nico LaHood, one of Gonzales’ attorneys, said of prosecutors after the acquittal. Uvalde School Shooting Aug 12, 2025 ‘My kids are in there, bro … please.' Uvalde releases video, records of slow police response Jun 27, 2024 Former Uvalde school district police chief charged with child endangerment after shooting that killed 21 Uvalde…

An autopsy commissioned by the family of the Renee Good, who was fatally shot by an immigration officer in Minneapolis earlier this month, found that she suffered three clear gunshot wounds, including one to her head, lawyers for the woman’s family said Wednesday. One of the injuries was to Good’s left forearm, the lawyers said in a statement, while another gunshot struck her right breast without piercing major organs. Neither of those wounds were immediately life-threatening, the attorneys said. A third shot entered the left side of Good’s head near the temple and exited on the right side, according to the statement, and she also appeared to have suffered a graze wound. The attorneys said the autopsy was conducted by a “highly respected” and credentialed independent medical pathologist. “We believe the evidence we are gathering and will continue to gather in our investigation will suffice to prove our case,” Lead Attorney Antonio M. Romanucci said in the statement. “The video evidence depicting the events of January 7, 2026, is clear, particularly when viewed through the standards of reasonable policing and totality of circumstances.” The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office has not yet released its findings about Good’s death to her family or their legal team, according to the attorneys. A search of cases on the medical examiner’s office website Wednesday night did not yield any results for Good’s death. Good, 37, was fatally shot in the driver’s seat of her SUV during an encounter with Jonathan Ross, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, in a residential part of Minneapolis on Jan. 7. The shooting followed the deployment of thousands of immigration officers to the Twin Cities. Music & Musicians Jan 19 Bruce Springsteen dedicates song to Renee Good, decries crackdown on immigrants during New Jersey performance Minnesota Jan 16 Minneapolis reports reveal chaotic moments after ICE officer fatally shot Renee Good Minnesota Jan 9 New cellphone video shows victim interacting with ICE officer moments before fatal shooting The encounter, which was captured on cell phone videos, showed Good’s wife — who was outside the SUV — calling Ross “big boy” and telling him to show his face. Other officers at the scene could be heard telling Good to get out of the car, and she could be seen turning the steering wheel away from Ross and beginning to drive. Multiple gunshots could be heard before Good’s SUV crashed into a parked vehicle. On a video recorded by Ross, a male voice could be heard saying, “f—–g bitch” moments before the crash. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused Good of being a “domestic terrorist” without providing evidence and said Ross acted in self-defense. He was treated in a hospital for injuries he sustained in the incident and was released soon after, Noem said shortly after the shooting. A DHS official later told NBC News that Ross suffered internal bleeding but did not elaborate on his injuries. In an email Wednesday night, a department spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin accused Good of refusing to comply with officers’ commands. “If you impede law enforcement operations, ignore law commands, and use a deadly weapon to kill or cause bodily harm to a federal law enforcement office there are dangerous, and in this case deadly, consequences,” McLaughlin said. “This was entirely preventable.” In an earlier statement, Good’s attorneys described her and her wife as “responsible community members who lived peacefully and did not engage in harmful conduct toward others, including the federal agents involved on January 7, 2026.” Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, as well as other local officials, have criticized the federal immigration operations in the area. Walz and Frey, both Democrats, have also been at odds with federal authorities who have sought to justify Good’s shooting. The FBI is investigating the shooting. State…

Masked intruders broke into the Los Angeles-area home of actor Troy Garity over the weekend when the “Ballers” and “Barbershop” actor was out of town, the LAPD told NBC Los Angeles exclusively. The break-in triggered an alert at about 8 p.m. Saturday after three men wearing ski masks and gloves entered the residence through a rear glass slider, police said. The burglars left a short time later and took off in a getaway car. It was not immediately clear what, if anything, was stolen. No arrests were reported Tuesday afternoon. NBCLA has reached out to Garity’s rep for comment. Garity is the 52-year-old son of actor Jane Fonda and politician and activist Tom Hayden. He is known for his role as Isaac in the “Barbershop” film franchise and NFL agent Jason Antolotti in HBO’s “Ballers” comedy series. Garity also had film roles in “Bandits,” alongside Bruce Willis, Cate Blanchett and Billy Bob Thorton, and “Soldier’s Girl.” He was nominated for a Golden Globe and Independent Spirit award for his role in the Showtime original. He made an on-screen appearance alongside his mother and her father, Henry Fonda, in 1981’s “On Golden Pond.”